Re: GDB 7.10 release 2015-07-17 status update?

[Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>]

On 17 July 2015 at 20:37, Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 07/17/2015 03:32 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>
>>> Do we consider the fact that mingw32 (and maybe other non-GNU) builds
>>> have
>>> been broken since this libiberty sync a blocker/critical issue?
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-06/msg00405.html
>>>
>>> Last we heard of it was here...
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-06/msg00654.html
>>>
>>> But we received no word from Yunlian Jiang yet.
>>>
>>> Maybe it should be added to the wiki too?
>>
>>
>> It's strange, it builds fine for me on Windows/MinGW - but perhaps
>> the problem doesn't happen if you use MinGW64, which is what I think
>> my compiler provides.
>>
>> But, back to your question, very definitely. If we can't even build
>> on Windows, we should at least decide what to do next. I haven't seen
>> the error; do you happen to have a link handy? Do you happen to have
>> a link?
>>
>
> Jan-Benedict posted one example here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-06/msg00650.html
>
> I see something similar related to the implicit declaration of asprintf.

I know that Pedro suggested fixing up bfd's configure.ac, has this
been tried out?

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-06/msg00654.html

I can send in a patch, but admittedly I'll be making the change blind.